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No job is complete until the selfie is posted.
— Ashok Kallarakkal
How different would people act if they couldn't show off on social media? Would they still do it?
— Donna Lynn Hope
A river cannot boast to a sea.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
— Thomas Jefferson
Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
— William Shakespeare
When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
— Owen D. Young
It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or bemoaning the mortifications, of feelings.
— Charlotte Bronte
The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.
— Giuseppe Mazzini
To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.
— M. Ageyev
Grace puts its hand on the boasting mouth, and shuts it once for all.
— Charles Spurgeon
What do the Texans say? All hat, no cattle.
— Alexander McCall Smith
I used to boast that Whole Foods was sort of recession-proof. And obviously I've been proven wrong. So I'm not boasting about that any longer.
— John Mackey
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
— Gertrude Stein
Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.
— John Steinbeck
Are the accomplishments that people boast about real? Probably. But I'd rather hang out with real people, and real people don't have to boast.
— Charles F. Glassman
Do not turn your face from others with pride, nor walk arrogantly on earth. Verily the Almighty does not like those who are arrogant and boastful.
— Anonymous
While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.
— Gaston Leroux
A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.
— Max Lucado
Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.
— W. Graham Scroggie
Since he was much weaker than his enemy, he could afford to display no weakness at all.
— Michael Dobbs
Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'
— Eminem
Quoting an old proverb: "An empty cart rattles loudly." she said. meaning, One who lacks substance boasts loudest.
— Alan Brennert
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers.
— Dave Barry
Sure there is none but fears a future state;
And when the most obdurate swear they do not,
Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues. — John Dryden
And when the most obdurate swear they do not,
Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues. — John Dryden
When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.
— Criss Jami
A lion gains nothing from boasting to a dog.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
— Gertrude Stein
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
— Ferdinand Foch
I'm boasting in God's Word, because I've found out His Word works.
— Chris Oyakhilome
The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
— Michel De Montaigne
When a friend of mine boasted about living in a gated community, I thought he meant Folsom, and I wondered whether he knew Charles Manson.
— Ron Brackin
After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.
— Criss Jami
He was always boasting of his ancestors, as stupid people do who are aware that they have done nothing themselves to boast about.
— Robert Graves
A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.
— Paul Theroux
Interestingly, people often boast that they are hard workers not understanding that hardworking means spending a lot of time and energy on work.
— Eraldo Banovac
No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.
— Ron Brackin
By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.
— William Shakespeare
Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens.
— Virginia Woolf
We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers ... We must do what we can to fix this problem.
— Stephanie Herseth
A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious.
— Helen Oyeyemi
Save the earth! Are you kidding?
If earth needs to save itself, we don't live now boasting about it. — Toba Beta
If earth needs to save itself, we don't live now boasting about it. — Toba Beta
Boasting is one of those rare outfits that never looks good on you but makes you look stunning when modeled by your admirers.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
A floating leaf has more to boast about than a sinking ship.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Although rap is about boasting, it's also about honesty and expressing your emotions.
— Keith Stanfield
Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.
— Mason Cooley
Special ops have earned the right to boast and don't; you're just a wannabee, which is why you do.
— Donna Lynn Hope
If you show off do not get upset when God doesn't show up.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If we desire that there be no boasting except in the cross, then we must live near the cross-indeed we must live on the cross.
— John Piper
Not given to boasting, which was a waste of breath-only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world he has none.
— Margaret Weis
I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.
— Willy Russell
Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.
— Mason Cooley
Ws 5:8 What hath pride profited us? or what advantage hath the boasting of riches brought us?
— Various
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
— Emmet Fox
The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off.
— Alexandra Ivy
If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.
— Bruce Lee
We are saved by grace, through faith in Christ alone! And since there is no room for human merit there can be no grounds for human boasting!
— Steve Camp
Boasting about badness without actively involving in badness is mere madness.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.
— Patricia Moyes
I tend to sleep in the nude ... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting.
— Padma Lakshmi
I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.
— Lewis Thomas
Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.
— Rabindranath Tagore
He who traps mice should not boast to he who hunts lions.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The silence of the three of them had made a little kernel of sense in a world of boasting, self-excuse and rhetoric.
— Thornton Wilder
Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?"
"No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you. — Cressida Cowell
"No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you. — Cressida Cowell
Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.
— Albert Payson Terhune
He thinks the sun comes up just to hear him crow.
— Charles Martin
They call me, The Sharkalator
— James Patterson